Bunkers at Foort Pulasi
by Dawn Gari
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Bunkers at Foort Pulasi
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Dawn Gari
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Photograph - Photography
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I like the lines and angles the pathway and the bunkers create at Fort Pulaski, Tybee island GA
The U.S. government began planning a system of coastal fortifications to defend the nation's coast against foreign invasion. Because Savannah was the major port in Georgia, navy officials recognized the need for a fort on Cockspur Island to protect the city from attacks coming up the Savannah River. In 1829 construction began on the new fort, A massive five-sided edifice, named for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish immigrant who fought during the American Revolution (1775-83).
On April 11, the Union bombardment opened two thirty-foot holes in the southeast face of Pulaski. Soon, more shells were passing through the wall and striking the interior of the fort. Olmstead decided to surrender the garrison when the firing came perilously close to one of the main powder magazines. In less than thirty-six hours and with the loss of only one Union soldier, the new rifled cannons had brought the surrender of a fort that took eighteen years to build—a fort that some of the best engineers in both armies had said could not be reduced by such an artillery assault
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March 14th, 2018
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